Time In Between: A Novella About Getting Up Anyway

Time In Between A Novella About Getting Up AnywayMaren does the math every morning before her feet even hit the floor. Get up. Coffee, lunches, the smile at drop-off that costs more than anyone around her knows. She loves her daughters so much it aches - she just can't remember how to turn herself back on enough to feel it most days.Two years after leaving a marriage that nearly erased her, Maren has gotten very good at one thing: seeming fine. Fine at church. Fine at pickup. Fine to the friend who finally asks how she's really doing - right up until she deletes the honest answer and sends a lighter one instead.But her fourteen-year-old daughter is watching. And noticing. And quietly learning to carry the same silence.When a burned pot of rice becomes the moment everything finally cracks open, Maren begins the slow, unglamorous work of letting people see her - a neighbor who goes first at the mailbox, a therapist who doesn't flinch, a friend who shows up with coffee instead of a verse. There's no lightning-bolt fix. There's no morning where the dread simply disappears for good.What she finds instead is something more honest: that showing up unfixed - and letting someone finally see it - might be its own kind of healing.Time In Between is a quiet, unflinching story about depression, motherhood, and faith for anyone who has ever needed permission to stop pretending they have it together.